Malpractice season two spoilers follow

Malpractice viewers issued the same complaint as the medical drama aired several "extreme" scenes on Monday night (May 5).

The ITV drama returned to screens tonight after its season two premiere aired on Sunday.

The new series centres around Dr James Ford (Tom Hughes), an on-call psychiatric registrar with a "messy" personal life.

When James got caught between an anxious new mother's postnatal check-up and the sectioning of a psychotic patient in a North Yorkshire hospital, things went horribly wrong.

After getting another doctor to prescribe the new mother, Rosie, a sedative, James was later shocked to receive a distressing phone call from the hospital, telling him that Rosie was out of control.

Once on the scene, James witnessed Rosie lashing out at police officers and hospital staff, before later jumping off the roof of the building.

The chaos continued during tonight's episode, with psychiatric patient, Tony, locking herself in the bathroom after her waters broke.

James decided to deliver the baby, despite his colleagues imploring him not to as they didn't have the facilities.

Both Tory and the baby suffered major health complications, with the doctors quickly passing the blame onto James after he chose to go ahead with the birth.

Later on, the Medical Investigation Unit (MIU) held an interview with James, before revealing that they were starting a fitness to practice investigation to determine whether he was at fault over the recent incidents.

After watching the harrowing episode, the show's viewers quickly took to X (formerly Twitter) to share their frustration at the "far fetched" behaviour of the doctors, with one person writing: "I'm struggling how every character has zero self awareness. They don't take any responsibility."

Another added: "Hopefully this is not the state of the NHS. Doctors more worried about themselves than their patients," while a third said: "The extremes in this series."

"All this throwing each other under the bus, scary stuff," a fourth fan wrote, with another similarly sharing: "Oh dear. Now I'm shouting at the telly."

A sixth viewer echoed the sentiment: "This programme is now doing my head in. What about the unborn child's rights. A right to a decent life. All these snakes turning on each other. If they think this supports the NHS, they're seriously wrong."

Malpractice is available to stream on ITVX

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